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• The Pause Between Acts

  April. 19, 2025 Day 7 of Holy Week Reflections Holy Saturday Today is Holy Saturday. Today we pause between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. A pause. An empty space. There is no Eucharist in the tabernacle. In fact, the tabernacle doors are wide open, and empty. The candle above the tabernacle has been extinguished. There…

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  April 19, 2025

  Essay, faith

  Angelus, Ave Maria Press, blessed-virgin-mary, Catholic Church, Catholic school, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Jared Dees, Jesus, prayer, Praying the Angelus, Regina Caeli, teaching

• Behold, Your Mother

  April 18, 2025 Day 6 of Holy Week Reflections, Good Friday Good Friday, March 29, 2024 On Good Friday in previous years our parish had had the Seven Last Words, but the practice had lapsed for some years. Last year, our pastor Fr. Lee brought it back with a twist. He asked seven parishioners to…

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  April 18, 2025

  Essay, faith

  Angel Gabriel, blessed-virgin-mary, Catholic Church, Good Friday, Jesus, John 19:26, Mary, new-eve, Pope John Paul II, St. John, the Cross on Calvary, wedding at Cana, woman at Calvary

• Feast Day of St. Bernadette of Lourdes

  Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Day 4 of Holy Week Reflections On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2025, I shared with my parish family at the Shrine of St. Jude a reflection I wrote after visiting Lourdes in July of 2024. Today is the feast day of St. Bernadette, who was the…

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  April 16, 2025

  Essay, faith

  apparitions, Bernadette Soubirous, blessed-virgin-mary, France, miracles, Our Lady of Lourdes, pilgrimage, St. Bernadette, waters

• Good Friday: Behold, Your Mother

  Yesterday, Good Friday, my church parish had a new liturgy at noon, The Seven Last Words of Jesus. These are phrases attributed to Jesus during his crucifixion. A string quartet played an orchestral piece composed by Joseph Haydn designed specifically for this service. More info about this piece of music is here: Seven parishioners were…

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  March 30, 2024

  Essay

  Banneux, Beauraing, blessed-virgin-mary, christianity, Fatima, haydn, Jesus, jesus-christ, Lourdes, mother-of-god, new-eve, redemption, salvation, seven-last-words